Union & Non-Union Talent Management

Here is how this works in practice. We give talent running that keeps a production's buy-in of performers compliant with Thai labour rules and aligned with local industry practice. Our team works with Thai entertainment-industry organisations. The Thailand Film Office to handle performer agreements, rate structures, working-time and late hours rules, and the social-security inputs that apply to workers on a production. We set up work permits for foreign talent performing in Thailand, manage the records that supports compliance, and apply the extra protections needed when minors perform.

Here is the short of it. We track call times, breaks and turnaround against Labour Protection Act terms, keep clear records for audit, and set up payment so performers are engaged on sound, well-logged terms. Whether a production is working with set up Thai screen talent or global cast, we make sure each buy-in is well contracted and the production carries no avoidable labour-compliance risk into the shoot.

Here is the breakdown. Thailand does not have a Hollywood-style guild structure. Performer buy-in is set by national labour law, principally the Labour Protection Act, together with the conventions of a large and skilled entertainment industry. That industry is big — a prolific lakorn television sector, a film community from Apichatpong Weerasethakul to the GDH studio, and one of the world's biggest commercial-production scenes — so performers and their representatives are well versed in pro buy-in terms.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The Thailand Film Office. This administers the cash rebates and issues permits, also sets expectations for how foreign shoots engage Thai talent. Thailand was never colonised and its legal system is its own, so a production gains from local guidance rather than imported assumptions about union frameworks. Sound talent running within the Thai legal context protects both the performers and the production. Keeps the buy-in of cast clean from contract through to wrap.